“Life in the South,” Franklin Repository (via: Valley of the Shadow: Civil War Era Newspapers, University of Virginia Library), January 23, 1867, 2 (column 3). http://valley.lib.virginia.edu/news/fr1867/pa.fr.fr.1867.01.23.xml#02 |
Africa Utopia: Chi Chi Nwanoku discusses the Chineke! orchestraPosted in Arts, Interviews, Media Archive, United Kingdom, Videos on 2017-03-13 17:39Z by Steven |
Africa Utopia: Chi Chi Nwanoku discusses the Chineke! orchestra
The Evening Standard
London, United Kingdom
2016-09-02
The founder of Britain’s first BME orchestra sat down with [Features Writer] David Ellis to talk classical music, prejudice in the industry and the Southbank Festival
Watch the interview here.
Music does not discriminate | Chi Chi Nwanoku | TEDxEustonPosted in Arts, Media Archive, United Kingdom, Videos on 2016-02-16 02:39Z by Steven |
Music does not discriminate | Chi Chi Nwanoku | TEDxEuston
TEDx Talks
2016-01-14
Chi Chi Nwanoku speaks at a 2015 TEDx event in London.
Chi-Chi Nwanoku MBE is the Founder, Artistic Director of Chineke!, Europe’s first classical orchestra of Black and Ethnic Minority musicians and is also the Principal Double bassist and founder of the Orchestra of the Age of Entertainment. Chi-chi is a professor of Double Bass History Studies at the Royal Academy of Music and was made a Fellow there in 1998.
Chi-chi gracefully opened the TEDxEuston 2015 stage. She declared we are all born musicians; everyone of us has a heartbeat connected to something. It was a privilege for the audience to hear her personal journey through her early introduction to music and her experiences as a black women in the classical music industry. She narrates how she is fighting the good fight to bring diversity to the classical world and encourages the audience to “Never be afraid of a challenge.”
Chineke! Europe’s first professional orchestra of black and minority ethnic musicians launchesPosted in Articles, Arts, Media Archive, United Kingdom, Women on 2015-09-03 01:42Z by Steven |
Chineke! Europe’s first professional orchestra of black and minority ethnic musicians launches
The Independent
2015-09-02
 Its founder double-bassist Chi-chi Nwanoku talks to Jessica Duchen |
When the Chineke! Orchestra steps on to the Queen Elizabeth Hall platform on 13 September, the audience should notice something unusual. One of those uncomfortable truths about classical music is that most symphony orchestras in Europe still consist mostly of white and white-Asian people. Chineke, the brainchild of the double-bassist Chi-chi Nwanoku, is Europe’s first professional orchestra made up entirely of black and minority ethnic musicians.
The idea is to bring together and showcase the wealth of talent among these under-represented performers. “It is about raising awareness, trying to level the playing field, altering the status quo a little bit and changing perceptions,” says Nwanoku.
Born in London to a Nigerian father and Irish mother, Nwanoku has been mulling over these issues for years, from her vantage point as a founder member of the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment, a popular media commentator and broadcaster, and a professor at the Royal Academy of Music. Her recent programmes for BBC Radio 4, In Search of the Black Mozart, about the 18th-century violin virtuoso and composer the Chevalier de Saint-Georges, sparked wide interest in historical musicians of colour…
Read the entire article here.